If you receive disability benefits from the Social Security Administration, and are interested in working or learning more about how working would affect your benefits, you can get help from a Work Incentive Planning and Assistance (WIPA) project. Our Community Work Incentives Coordinators (CWIC’s) are specially trained professionals that are able to assist you in your work and benefit planning.

A CWIC can:

• Answer your questions about how part-time, full-time, or seasonal work would affect your individual disability benefits and other benefits you may receive from Federal, State, and local programs.
• Answer your questions about how work would affect your health care.
• Answer your questions about SSA and work incentives of other programs.
• Discuss your individual employment goals, including possible barriers and the resources or services you would need to overcome any barriers. A WIPA can also help you find those resources and services.
• Help you plan how to use work incentives or other benefits for a successful return to work.
• Help you to put in place the work incentives that you need.
• Provide information to give you the opportunity to make the informed choice decision that is right for you.

Walton Options provides WIPA services to the following South Carolina counties: Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Edgefield, Greenwood, Hampton, Jasper, McCormick, Orangeburg, and Saluda.

Contact your local CWIC to get more information and services for your county.

For more information or services in Abbeville, Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, Orangeburg and Saluda Counties please contact:

Larry Addley
866-793-3407 (toll free)
803-279-9611 v/tty)
803-279-9135 (fax)

For services in Allendale, Bamberg, Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton, and Jasper Counties please contact:

Teri Gabor
803-943-0524

If you get our voicemail when you call, please understand that we are serving other consumers either in or out of the office.  Please be patient and leave a message.  Please include the county you live  in, your area code and phone number and the best time of day to contact you.   This will assist us in contacting you much sooner.

If you live in a county in South Carolina not listed above and would like to contact a WIPA in your area, please contact:

Denise Koon
803-896-6374
803-896-6510 (fax)

To contact a WIPA project outside of South Carolina please see the WIPA Directory.

For information on the Ticket to Work, a list of Employment Networks or how to contact Maximus please contact Walton Options Employment Division or visit Ticket to Work.

Download the WIPA Brochure